Park Center Indoor Pools — Local services in Murray

Not a good experience today. My daughter and I frequent the pool and always enjoy it. Today was different. I got told I had to remove my tank top because it was made of cotton. I did so at the request of the lifeguard but was extremely confused because I always wear the same tank top to the same pool. It is a tank top, that is not in support of any one thing, but could easily be confused for a prototype just because of the coloring. I do also happen to be queer and while I do not want it, I do not make any attempts to hide it either. I was also confused because so many men including Myself wear various cotton shirts at the pool, I imagine many things worn by women are also cotton. I thought it was a new weird rule and I assumed the same lifeguard would go around and tell the other patrons at the pool that they were also required to remove any cotton they might have on. That did not happen. I was the only person approached about what they were wearing. No other patrons were asked remove their T-shirts, even though there were more than a dozen people in the pool at the time wearing T-shirts clearly made of cotton. I can only assume that it was because the lifeguard did not like what he thought was a tank top supporting gay people. Even though while I am queer and do support of things, obviously, my tank top is simply just supporting the company that made it.

Then as if to confirm my suspicions the very same lifeguard as well as one more also proceeded to get upset and borderline confrontational with a certain group of people at the pool. We can just say they were clearly not from utah and clearly didn’t understand why they were being singled out and no matter of whistle blowing and yelling was going to magically break the language barrier. They were not doing anything different than my daughter was, but you didn’t see my daughter getting yelled at. I was less than impressed and we left very quickly after one of the lifeguards asked a young man to get out of the pool for quite literally standing in the pool. I don’t think there is a...

I have mixed feelings about this pool so I'll give it a 3.

On the one hand, I have small kids, so the fact that there are no rules banning very young children from going off the diving boards or going off the slides was really great fun for them. The large shallow area is awesome too. We'll be back for that reason alone.

On the other hand, I am certified to train lifeguards by two different companies and the lack of any type of lifeguard presence (they were there, but not enforcing anything) was rather disturbing. The guards I saw stared at the sky, picked at their rescue tubes, one even got off stand to undress (apparently it was too hot to wait?!?), and nobody wanted to blow their whistles. I watched a 9ish year old boy do flips off the edge of the pool (in very shallow water) for at least 15 min before a lifeguard finally said something to him. Nobody made sure the deep ends were clear before more kids jumped off the boards - several were almost brained, and there is a guard positioned right at the bottom of the slide who never said a word to the kids who were swimming at the exit of the flume. It was extremely dangerous.

If you bring your kids here, it's a really fun place, but please watch them extra careful because those lifeguards aren't...

This place was horrible. The worst thing was when a female lifeguard asked a 10 or 11 year old boy if he had underwear or another pair of shorts on underneath his swimsuit, when he said no she asked if he could pull it down a little so she could see. I thought it was completely inappropriate. They have signs going up the stairs to the water slide that tell you not to hold onto the railing. They were hypocrites about who certain rules applied to. There had been a little boy playing around a very long railing and that was fine for an hour. My friends son started playing around the same railing and it suddenly wasn't ok. The staff was unfriendly. They sucked all of the fun out of being there. I took my 1yr old son there and they told me as I was getting in the pool that I wasn't allowed to use the flotation device that I had brought for him, and that I could either use one of their life jackets or carry him. He was completely miserable with that life jacket on, so I took it off and we stayed in the shallow end of the pool where he kept tripping and gulping down water. Me and my friends agreed we are never going back to this place. What is the point in having a business like this if you don't seem to like any of...